It’s time to have some rock at the Superbowl and there is no one bigger than Metallica. Plus it’s their hometown and they are already involved in local sports teams like the Baseball world champions Giants plus the San Jose Sharks.

The Grammys suck, at this point any self respecting metal head knows that. Really ever since the gave the Grammy for best metal performance to Jethro Tull in 1989 we’ve realized this but for the 2015 version another new low was reached.

First during their annual memorial of musicians and people who work in the music industry that were lost during that year there was no mention of Wayne Static of Static-X or Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) from GWAR. They had some random business manager that no one knows but no mention of at least Oderus? A few years ago there was no mention of Peter Steele of Type O Negative either. It’s not like these bands haven’t had any success or anything, (sarcasm mode turned off.)

The second huge mistake was giving the best metal performance Grammy to Tenacious D. Now we all love us some Tenacious D but their version of Dio’s “Last in Line” is the best metal performance of 2014? You must be joking. Unfortunately that’s exactly what the Grammy’s are, a joke, at least to the world of hard rock and metal they are. It’s too bad, all they would have to do is get one thing right and we’d all be good with it. Well that’s alright Grammy board because while rock continues to be the best selling music genre in the world you just make yourselves look silly with all the pop and randomness of your award show.

No openers, no local bands, no support bands just a few hours with Machine Head. Tickets are still available for select shows. If you’ve ever been to a Machine Head show and left thinking “that was awesome but I wished they would have played your favorite song” then these are the shows for you.

3/11

Hangar 19 relives the glory days of classic metal and features music from the artists who built this explosive genre, including Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax, Korn, Slayer and Marilyn Manson.

Hangar 19 stops down from the nostalgia just long enough to highlight new metal in a weekly “Then and Now” segment and to interview the metal greats that helped mold the speaker-shredding musical movement.